Our Mission

The mission of the Rattlesnake Fire Protection District is to mitigate our
customers' fire and medical emergencies with competence and compassion; and to
educate our residents through comprehensive prevention programs.

Elbert County Burn Restrictions: Stage 2

We are in a stage 2 burn ban! Any time you want to burn in Rattlesnake Fire's District a burn permit is required unless you have an approved burn pit. Burn permits are only issued when Elbert County is in a stage 1 or stage 2 burn ban. Absolutely no burning is allowed during a stage 3 burn ban. For more information on Ordinance 06-01 click here.

Volunteer Recognition

We appreciate all of our volunteers. Lead Firefighter Tim Ralston put in over 1806 hours of volunteer time into the department in 2017. That is an average of 34.7 hours a week he volunteers! Because Tim is around the station so much he made 31% of the calls in 2017.

Speaking of calls, Assistant Chief Lloyd Standard made 303 of the 319 (95%) calls for service in 2017! This is a record that will be hard to break. While he would love to continue that streak into 2018 he will be occupied by his new grandson Shepherd on Mondays, giving other the opportunity to take the calls championship title from him in 2018.

In The Community

Giving back to the community is something we are proud of and enjoy doing. If you would like to schedule and event with the firefighters please click here and contact an officer at the station near you.

Code Red

Elbert County has teamed up with the 911 Authority board, Fire Departments and local Towns to implement CodeRED, an emergency notification system via phone, a service FREE to Elbert County residents. There are three components to this system:

The CodeRED emergency notification system is a communication service available for emergency and non-emergency notifications. CodeRED employs intranet mapping capable of geographic targeting of calls, coupled with a telephone calling system capable of delivering a pre-recorded message directly to homes and businesses at the rate of up to 60,000 calls per hour. The system's main purpose is to notify citizens or groups of citizens in emergency situations; however the system has the ability to be used for non-emergency notifications as well. Pertinent Community Notifications will be sent via email and/or text messaging on subjects with potential impact to residents such as:

Road closures during Winter Storm events

Rabies outbreak

Fire Ban restrictions

CodeRED NOTIFICATION MAY BE INVOKED FOR EMERGENCY PURPOSES.Examples of when the CodeRED system might be exercised by County or Town municipalities:

Boil Water rule

Evacuations

Bomb Threat

Chemical spill or Gas leak

CodeRED WEATHER WARNING will deliver severe weather warnings to your telephone and/or cell phone within seconds after being issued by the National Weather Service. You will only get the warning if you physically live in the area that is in the warning!